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EU Spending €1M for Security Audit of Open Source

posted by janrinok on Thursday December 25 2014, @01:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-making-sure dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda blogs

Security and liberty don't have to be opposites. I want the European Union to focus its energy and funds on projects that increase both the safety and the autonomy of its people at the same time. At my proposal, next year's EU budget will include a step in that direction:
€1 million of the EU's €40 million pilot project fund will be spent towards open source software security.

The European Union's interoperability page says

The European Parliament is funding a security audit of the free and open source solutions used by the Parliament and the European Commission. Last Wednesday, the EP allocated €1 million for the audit project, to be carried out by the EC Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT). The project should also come up with best practices for code review and quality assessments of free software and open standards funded by the EU.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @02:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @02:04AM (#129027)

    It's only a million euros. That's less than one percent of one day's worth of the Common Agricultural Policy subsidies. That's enough to evaporate overnight: not even a token amount.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @03:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 25 2014, @03:00AM (#129034)

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    This is very good news, actually. Auditing free software is of enormous public benefit. Europe should of course be spending a lot more on free software than it does now. Even so, if 6 or so gurus could look at the code for a year and then write a report, the impact could be amazing. ~Anonymous 0x29B1D963
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